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Denison, Texas Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hey there, Denison! Let's get started with what's happening in and around town. Read on and stay in the loop. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How many presidents have actually stopped in Denison?
  • Why did Trump’s motorcade turn US 75 in Denison into a spectacle?
  • Escaped Oklahoma inmate briefly surfaced at a Denison gas station

Also on today's calendar: Texoma Medical Center — Big Brother/Big Sister Class and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Humid with a shower or two, with a high of 71 and low of 65 degrees.
  • Sunday: Humid; a quick morning shower, temps: high: 78, low: 60.
  • Monday: Sunshine, with a high of 80 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Texoma's rich history of presidential visits (kten.com) — Presidential history runs right through Denison, from Ulysses S. Grant’s 1874 stop in the then-new rail town to Franklin Roosevelt’s surprise visit that drew crowds larger than the city’s population. The story traces how Denison’s Perrin Field, Eisenhower’s hometown ties, and modern visits like Barack Obama’s helped make the city a recurring backdrop for national politics.
   

• Presidential visit: A historic day for Texoma (kten.com) — Denison residents lined US 75 on Thursday to watch Donald Trump’s motorcade speed from Denton toward a packed rally in Durant, turning the highway into a brief local spectacle. Inside the Choctaw Event Center, Trump and several Oklahoma Republican candidates focused on the economy, taxes, Iran, and regional races while supporters endured long, rainy lines for a rare in-person appearance.
   

• An Oklahoma fugitive spent two months on the run. Investigators found him in Providence. (bostonglobe.com) — An Oklahoma inmate convicted of lewd acts involving a minor escaped a minimum-security prison in July and briefly passed through a gas station and Walmart in Denison before heading east. Investigators ultimately tracked him to a homeless-services nonprofit in Providence, Rhode Island, where a fugitive task force arrested him; he is now being held without bail pending return to Oklahoma.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Saturday October 3
  • Fall Festival →
    Historic Downtown Denison, W Main St, Denison
    9:00 am
    • Tuesday October 6
  • National Night Out
    Sherman ISD, 405 N Rusk St, Sherman
    6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • If you are bored, if you feel that you don't have a purpose in life, please consider doing whatever you can for people in nursing homes.
    Some of them have no one left to say "hello" or to listen to them. About two years ago, through a part-time job (because I was bored and decided to… (Nextdoor Desvoignes Rd)
  • My hubs, Crespin, singing a cover of Randy Travis’s “Promises.
    ” He’s been singing this song to me since we were teenagers, and somehow, after all these years, it still hits me the same way. There are people… (Nextdoor Main St)
  • Oak St. Health posted a job opening for Shift Supervisor in Denison. Apply here.
  • Domino's Pizza posted a job opening for Customer Service Rep (08781) 81750 N Hwy 289, Ste 101 in Pottsboro. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Denison here.

🗞 Nearby News

Sherman

  • Mayor's Roundtable event underway in Sherman (kten.com)
  • Paragon Realtors joins Compass, as DFW boutique brokerages face survival pressure (therealdeal.com)
  • Sherman, Texas, Matt Townsend Passes Away, Beloved Coach and Teacher Remembered by Students (richlandtoday.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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